Back in the day, yes. My Rampage Formula from 2006 has this "feature" didn't like it then as PCIe was being phased in and I wanted to switch. It just surprises me this is still going on. It would really surprise me to find people still using this standard today. Even I moved to USB PCIe years ago. Save for a PCI NIC I just replaced with a USB one on my Intel board.

After reading a lot of reviews for my last build (Z77) I was deciding between the Extreme 9 and Sabertooth. Really the only reason I went with the Sabertooth was due to availability. ASRock was never really on my radar before then but they have made some great strides in the last few years.

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Sigh, now I'm looking at the MSI MPower. I suck at this. But to be fair (to me) I haven't seen much that's out there yet. Asus has always been stellar for me. But I just want to change up from the red/black theme.

Haha, I wouldn't say you suck at it. Just doing your research.....at least that's always been my excuse. I can easily go a month or two reading review, forums etc before actually deciding on something.

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I won't be able to put something together before next month. No rush. I've waited six years for a decent performance bump to get me to upgrade again, I can wait a few weeks more. ;)

Will be interesting to see if Rev.2 boards come out soon enough for me and to see how CPU's globally are OC'ing in a month. Sure am glad I don't have a current i7. I doubt I'd jump on the Haswell bandwagon if that were the case.

Anyone seen any info on when chips will start flowing that have this bug fixed?
Because I use attached storage I'm concerned I will experience this. Not a large issue for me, however for my family they just use the content not manage the PC.

4th gen Core is on track for a midyear launch. Intel issued a PCN (Product Change Notification) documenting a chipset USB errata and stating that chipsets with the errata will be in production during the initial ramp. But Intel has confirmed that there is no chance of data loss or corruption. This issue has only been observed with a small subset of USB SuperSpeed thumb drives and does not affect other USB peripherals. We take all customer issues seriously and should any customer have a question or concern they can always contact Intel customer support.

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Originally Posted by cnet

According to the Product Change Notification, a new "stepping" -- a version of the chipset with the fix -- will be sent as samples to customers starting April 19. The final version of the fixed chipset will be available starting July 15.

Quick google search in March gave this answer (though no specific dates at that time)

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